On Friday, Donald Trump became the first sitting president to address anti-abortion protesters in town for the annual March For Life event.

During a Rose Garden ceremony, the president attempted to make a point about late-term abortions. But Trump—who once declared himself “very pro-choice”—bungled his prepared remarks and ended up condemning a normal, benign pregnancy instead.

“Right now in a number of states the law allows a baby to be born from his or her mother’s womb in the ninth month,” Trump said.

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This is in fact very accurate. Presumably, the president meant to say that in some states babies are torn from their mother’s womb—a very loaded way to describe a late-term abortion, but one more in line with the message he was sending.

“It is wrong,” Trump continued. “It has to change.”

As we speak, a cavalcade of Republican congressmen are probably arranging Fox News interviews to explain why the president’s new anti-birth stance is actually making America great again.